Strategic Finance

Figma Figma · Enterprise · United States · Business Operations

This role is in Strategic Finance at Figma, focusing on business issues, planning, resource allocation, and financial analysis. It involves partnering with various teams, including Data Science and RevOps, to improve financial forecasting and data quality. While the role mentions experimenting with AI-driven solutions to automate workflows, the core function is financial strategy and operations, not AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive alignment on KPIs and key metrics to monitor business performance, drive growth initiatives, and provide visibility into operating performance
  2. Build annual operating plans, quarterly, and monthly financial forecasts
  3. Develop cross-functional partnerships across Figma to formulate business insight and inform executive decision making
  4. Own, run, and improve financial processes that support Figma’s business
  5. Partner with Strategic Finance, Data Science, and RevOps to improve our ARR data quality and forecasting

Skills

Required

  • Financial planning
  • Data-driven analysis
  • Process building
  • Structured problem-solving
  • Cross-functional communication
  • Stakeholder management

Nice to have

  • High growth B2B SaaS company experience
  • GTM experience
  • SQL
  • AI tooling experience
  • Experience working with large data-sets

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of relevant experience in investment banking, private equity, strategic finance, Big 4 audit, business operations, or related fields
  • Experience in financial planning and creating data-driven analysis
  • Demonstrated ability to build processes from scratch and distill complex issues into structured frameworks and develop concrete action plans